The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1887-02-25
The MILLENNIUM.

The Present state of AffaiFs ou Earth Linn
tied to the Present Century, According to
Rev. N. Baxter-The Bonaparte Dynasty
Twice Killed, to Rise Truiumphant and
With Terrible Power Ere the Prophecy
viii be FuIhIIed-The Beginning of the
End in 1850.
NEW XoRk, Feb. 2O.-Bev T. Baxter,
who has been fixing the end of time for q
week or two past, settled the question
this afternoon. About the year 1890 the
millennium will begin. He told all about
il in Cosmopolitan Hall to about five hun
dred persons. around the room were ar
ranged illustrations of Daufeps visions
and Johns revelations, most of them OF
a cheerless character. Before the mil
lennium comes there is to be a season Of
hard times for every body on both sides
of the world The audience was not i'm
pressed, the collection being too small for
congregation ex q6cttng. To have no use
for money in a short while
What Rev. Mr.. Miller proved so conc1u-
sively many years ago, what a great
many Second AdYentists have from time to
time fixed at later movable dates, Rev
Mr.. Baxter figured as unanswerably to-
day for 1900. He read from Daniel to
prove that the present trouble in the East
was his prophecy-all nations going to
dght Jerusalem. The image seen by Neb-
OF clay was about demolished to the
feet, and the toes were. represented by the
ten kingdoms of Caesar's world-England,
France, Spain, Italy and Portugal on the
right foot; Greece, Egypt, Syria, Bulgaria
and Asia Minor on the left. To fu fill all
the prophecies two prominent things must
happel-England must become a republic
and France must whip Germany.
The speaker depicted The scenes of the
latter tiTnes with ba world adrsift af
this point called upon the congregation to
sing "Puu for the shore" The men
prOphesying in the beginning of the mil
Iennium were as much ahead of their age
as Calico, Isaac Newton and Jenner. How
astonished the children of the millennium
would be, he sa d. that we were so blind in
this matter. Having opened the six phials
mentioned by John, the RevelatOr, Mr.
Baxter opened the seven h. The former
phials referred to things that had already
happened; the seventh refers to things to
come. Mr.. Baxter said: '"The anti
Christ, who VII open things just
previous to the opening of the mil
lennium, is Plon-Plon BOnaparte, and the
French people will own about all
Europe. New York and the Western
Hemisphere cuts no figure in the CONQUEST
of the Bonaparte dynasty, which is the
seven-neaded animal m 3ntiOned in d tniel
as having received a deadly wound from
which it recovered. The dynasty was
twice killed-once at WaterioO-once at
Sedan. This double death makes assur-
ance daubly sure Daniel said the wound
would be healed. This means that in
the coming conflict with Germany
France will win. We are now between
the wounding and healing. The begin
ming of the end will come in 1890. Then
for seven years Prince Bonaparte will
reign supreme and many millions will be
put to death in those t6rrlt le times. This
is the battle of Arn1a geddOn. All the
Anarchists, Socialists and dy namiters
will join and fight the saints.
Bad as the state of things will be under
BOnaparte's re gn they will be worse in
the succeeding three years and a half
Still, real estate owners are making their
wills, deciding their possessions to their
children's children as if the world were
going on forever. In thirteen years the
vexe land question will settle itself-no
body will own a cents worth. We are
on the verge of the war with God Al
mighty and evil spirits are now at
work getting the forces together. The
dragon, the scarlet woman and the beast
with seven horns are busi'y engaged in
raising troops. Spirituahstic mediums
will be told by Satan that Napoleon is the
ancient of days and all the spirituaIists
will join his forces. The spirit of Com
munlsm which is represented by the So
cialists in Germany, the Nihilists in Rus
sia, the Fenians in Ireland, is one of the
elements of the coming struggle.
There viii be great earthquakes be
tween the present day and the end of all
the trouble, but the greatest will be the
final one, when all these lofty fats, hotels
and business structures win be hattened
to the ground. The Charleston earthquake
is not the only one of its kind; there are
others coming both there and in places
heretofore exempt.
The end of the century is the end of the
wor1d-in its present condition. Then
will come the millennium. The chosen
ones during that thousand years will
sleep in heaven at night and come down
to the earth to do their work. Then, by
spreading their wings, they will fly to the
sun. There will be people on earth who
can not fly. But, travelling on railroad
trains, they will look out Of the win
dows and see the lion and the child to-
gether; the bear and the COW, the wof
and the lamb. At the beginning of the
millennium Christ will come as a thief in
the night and get the 14,000 Christians
He will be like the rich men who nov
have country houses-wOrking on earth
and living in Heaven.